Ulla Koch

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Ursula "Ulla" Koch (born July 5, 1955 in Dormagen ) is a German gymnastics trainer. Since May 2005 she has been the DTB head coach for women.

Life

Ursula Koch actually started out in athletics. The parade discipline was the shot put . Due to an incorrect registration at TSV Bayer Dormagen , she started as a gymnast and later also as a trainer. Her actual coaching career began in 1979 at the KTZ Bergisch Gladbach gymnastics club . Since the beginning of her activity, she has supervised more than 50 German championships, nine gymnasts at seven European championships, 13 gymnasts at ten world championships and five gymnasts at the Olympic Games between 1992 and 2004. From 1984 to 1992 she was also the representative for youth work in the federal technical committee. In 1986 she was selected to be the coaching spokesperson. In 1992 she became chairwoman of the women's gymnastics group. For many years she was Vice President of the Rheinischer Turnerbund.

On March 20, 2005, she was appointed by the board of elite sport of the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) as coordinator for the German selection of women. In May of the same year she became the head coach of the German gymnasts and in this role she held gymnasts at a total of three Olympic Games. She carried out this office to this day and was also part of the coaching commission, which was convened by the board of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB).

On January 21, 2020 she was awarded the prize for her life's work as a gymnastics trainer by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She was also awarded the State Sports Medal of North Rhine-Westphalia and the DOSB Equal Opportunities Prize 2016.

Private life

Ursula Koch is married to the gymnastics trainer Dieter Koch , with whom she worked at the KTZ Bergisch Gladbach. She was a high school teacher until she had to give up this job due to her coaching activity.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RP ONLINE: Sportgeschichten (108): The gymnast's heart beats in Dormagen. In: RP Online. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ulla Koch receives award from IOC. In: Deutscher Turner-Bund . Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d entry "Koch, Ursula" in Munzinger Online / Sport - Internationales Sportarchiv, URL: http://www.munzinger.de/document/01000006951 (accessed on March 18, 2020)
  4. ^ DOSB Equal Opportunities Prize for Ulla Koch. In: German Trainer Association. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Head coach Ulla Koch . In: Rheinischer Turnbund (Ed.): Turn-dm & olympiaqualification düsseldorf - June 16 & 17, 2012 . Bergisch Gladbach 2012, p. 10 ( turn-dm2012.de [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Ulla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trainer in apparatus gymnastics
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dormagen